When Rock Met Disco: The Story of How The Rolling Stones, Rod Stewart, KISS, Queen, Blondie and More Got Their Groove On in the Me Decade

by Steven Blush

Overview

Disco remains the most important and influential musical and cultural movement of the past half-century. Everything since has been an affirmation of, or a reaction to, those pulsating dance floor rhythms.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781493063895
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	04/01/2023
Pages:	298
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

STEVEN BLUSH has written five books about rock music: American Hardcore (2001), .45 Dangerous Minds (2005), American Hair Metal (2006), Lost Rockers (2015), and New York Rock (2016)--and one about Billie Jean King's rebel tennis league, Bustin' Balls (2020).
His journalism has appeared in over fifty publications, like Spin, Details, Interview, Village Voice, and The Times of London. Blush was a contributing editor to Paper Magazine. He got his start in the early '80s promoting punk rock shows in Washington, DC, and then moved to NYC in 1986, where he published fifty-two issues of Seconds Magazine through 2000.
He wrote and produced the theatrically released Sundance Film Festival-premiered doc film American Hardcore. His follow-up film with director Paul Rachman, Lost Rockers, about great forgotten rock musicians, came out in 2017.

Editorial Reviews

Blush takes the time to lay the foundations of the culture before focusing on his topic of the rock crossovers. This is important. Readers who were not there at the time need to know the whys, the hows and the wheres to get the full picture. One entire chapter is devoted to talking about several of the most famous New York City discos and how each had their own unique vibes and flavors. The back half of the book focuses on the rockers who ventured into the disco waters and then the extreme backlash that the dance genre received come 1979. Blush's writing style is engaging and creative. I liked the added touch of quotes from folks who were part of the scene back in the day as well as song lyric snippets that are sprinkled in along the way.

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